ML20151P703

Great Chilean Earthquakes of 1960, Presented at 880506-08 Meeting in Seattle,Wa

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THE GREAT CHILEAN EARTHQUAKES OF 1960 Pierre Saint-Amand Post Office Box 532 Ridgecrest, California 93555 l

In May 1960, a series of earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions devastated large areas of southern Chile. Uplift and subsidence were common along the Chilean Coast. Damage to industry, private property, utilities and communications was spread over an area 600 by 150 kilometers. All this took place in an area in which the oldest inhabitants could not remember ever having felt an earthquake before; the last similar event was in 1835, as reported by Darwin. The earthquakes did over 400,000,000 dollars in damage, an appreciable portion of the gross national product of the country.

Nonetheless, recovery was rapid and the economy of the area improved greatly owing to increased investment, and replacement of obsolete and marginal facilities.

l References Saint-Amand, Pierre,1961, Los terremotos de Mayo-Chile 1960:

China Lake, California, U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, Technical Article 14, 39 p.

, editor,1963, Special issue - Oceanographic, geologic, and engineering studies of the Chilean earthquakes of May 1 1960: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 53, no.6. l 8008100159Ogo ADOCR O 44 PDR PDR j P _

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